Last week, I told my story of moving from a Paycheck Person toward being a Courageous Thinker. Courageous Thinkers have two characteristics, Dynamic Agency and knowing what they’re interested in. I just listened to David Senra’s podcast on James Cameron, the director of
Once again, we hanks for writing Chris. Here’s my initial thought; we love (I love) these stories about determination and grit and doing the hard stuff. But, I wonder in how many other parts of Cameron’s life he avoids the difficult stuff? Perhaps in film-making he has the mental capacity to “grind”, but does that extrapolate to other activities? Maybe it does, but I also have been wondering how often we only see one tiny dimension of the hero’s journey. Where are the trade-offs in these stories? As you know, one of the themes in Senra’s podcast is that “great” founders often look back and regret neglecting other parts of their life for their work…
🤯Unknown Unknowns #109 - Dynamic Agency
Once again, we hanks for writing Chris. Here’s my initial thought; we love (I love) these stories about determination and grit and doing the hard stuff. But, I wonder in how many other parts of Cameron’s life he avoids the difficult stuff? Perhaps in film-making he has the mental capacity to “grind”, but does that extrapolate to other activities? Maybe it does, but I also have been wondering how often we only see one tiny dimension of the hero’s journey. Where are the trade-offs in these stories? As you know, one of the themes in Senra’s podcast is that “great” founders often look back and regret neglecting other parts of their life for their work…